S.F. settles Super Bowl bet, and it’s not a case of Anchor Steam

Say what you will about San Francisco’s Planning Department, but at least they keep their bets.

The department that invariably finds itself stuck in the middle of the city’s myriad land-use fights recently found itself in another unenviable position — settling up with Baltimore’s Planning Department after the Ravens beat the 49ers in the Super Bowl.

The price? Our Planning Department staff had to sing “Good Morning, Baltimore” from the musical “Hairspray” in Civic Center Plaza while holding a Ravens sign. (If the Niners had won, Baltimore planners had to stand in front of their City Hall, atop the painted Raven’s logo on their plaza, and sing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” And, of course, post the video on YouTube.)

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We don’t recommend Planning Director John Rahaim quit his day job.

Still, he was a good sport about the whole thing, though he noted in an e-mail to his Baltimore counterpart, Tom Stosur, that “at times, I was worried that people walking through the plaza were going to stone us.”